Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: LANIER, BENJAMIN E

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2132 2432 2437

This examiner grants 69% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

69.2%
Allow Rate
+11.2% vs TC avg
945
Total Applications
+17.0%
Interview Lift
1275
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 913 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

7.5%
§101 Eligibility
17.7%
§102 Novelty
48.1%
§103 Obviousness
17.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18070101 DEVICE CERTIFICATION BASED ON DEVICE CAPABILITIES Non-Final OA MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
18348905 SECURITY POLICY PROCESSING METHOD AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18649413 ANONYMOUS EVENT ATTESTATION WITH GROUP SIGNATURES Final Rejection Google LLC
18391375 INTEGRITY PROTECTED COMMAND BUFFER EXECUTION Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18821867 Virtual Subscriber Identification Module and Virtual Smart Card Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
18511425 PREVENTING PROFILED SIDE CHANNEL ATTACKS Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
17810051 FRAMEWORK FOR AUTOMATED OPERATOR ACCESS TO INFRASTRUCTURE IN A CLOUD SERVICE Final Rejection Oracle International Corporation
17966599 PRIVACY PROTECTION IN NETWORK SLICE AS A SERVICE Non-Final OA T-Mobile USA, Inc.
18593117 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTION OF CLOCK TAMPERING ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE Non-Final OA LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
17456437 CAUSING OR PREVENTING AN UPDATE TO A NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION TABLE Non-Final OA Juniper Networks, Inc.
17542471 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD Final Rejection FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
17945637 NETWORK-STORAGE-BASED ATTACK DETECTION Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.
18719274 LOG OUTPUT DEVICE, LOG OUTPUT METHOD, AND LOG OUTPUT PROGRAM Final Rejection NTT, Inc.
18395379 Security Events Graph for Alert Prioritization Final Rejection Netskope, Inc.
18479791 DYNAMIC CONTROL PLANE FOR CONFIGURING CAPABILITIES ACROSS APPLICATIONS VIA A CLOUD PLATFORM Non-Final OA Okta, Inc.
17428941 DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, COMMUNICATION PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSING PROGRAM Non-Final OA connectFree Corporation
18690469 ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Beijing VNET Broadband Data Center Co., Ltd.
18204658 SELF-AUTHENTICATION OF DATA STORED OFF-CHIP Final Rejection Xilinx, Inc.
18617185 GROUP DELEGATION COMPUTING METHOD Non-Final OA SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY
18610257 AUTHENTICATION OF SOFTWARE ROBOTS WITH GATEWAY PROXY FOR ACCESS TO CLOUD-BASED SERVICES Non-Final OA Automation Anywhere, Inc.
18261505 A DEVICE AND A COMMUNICATION METHOD Non-Final OA NCIPHER SECURITY LIMITED
18229948 Systems and Methods for Biometrics-based Secure Data Encryption and Data Signature Final Rejection Dapple Security, Inc.
18131347 QUANTUM-RESISTANT CRYPTOSYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDED IN THE SAME Non-Final OA INSTITUTE FOR BASIC SCIENCE

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